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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
West Ham 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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CENTRAL HOME.
| MEN | WOMEN | CHILDREN | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chronic Sick | Mental | Epileptic | Chronic Sick | Mental | Epileptic | Chronic Sick | Mental | Epileptic | ||
| Admitted | 848 | – | 15 | 835 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1716 |
| Discharged | 891 | – | 15 | 897 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1820 |
| Refused admission | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Admitted by means of:— | MEN | WOMEN | CHILDREN | |||||||
| Relieving Officer and District Med. Officer | 118 | 184 | – | 302 | ||||||
| Gen. Practitioner and Relieving Officer | 470 | 438 | 1 | 909 | ||||||
| Gen. Practitioner & D.M.O | – | – | – | – | ||||||
| M.O.H | 1 | – | – | 1 | ||||||
| Otherwise | 39 | 16 | 3 | 58 | ||||||
| Transferred from other Institutions | 238 | 207 | – | 445 | ||||||
| Med. Superintendent | – | – | – | – | ||||||
| No. of infectious cases | 5 | 3 | 10 | 18 | ||||||
| Transferred to other Institutions | 232 | 313 | 8 | 553 | ||||||
| Deaths | 492 | 390 | – | 882 | ||||||
| Total No. of sick cases in the Home on 30/12/33 | 404 | 420 | 3 | 827 | ||||||
| Total No. of able-bodied in the Home on 30 12/33 | 411 | 312 | – | 723 | ||||||
| No. of vacant beds, if any, on 30/12/33 | 76 | 57 | – | 133 | ||||||